The U.S. Postal Service next week will begin exploring the feasibility of constructing a postal-owned mail irradiation facility in the Washington, DC.
The USPS’s preferred site is the Curseen-Morris Processing and Distribution Center on Brentwood Road, NE in Washington DC, named for two postal workers who died there from exposure to anthrax during the fall of 2001.
During that period several postal facilities in New Jersey, Ohio and other states had to be closed down temporarily to receive irradiation to free them of any traces of anthrax.
Now, the USPS said it wants to more cost effectively irradiate and sanitize mail delivered to government offices within the 202 to 205 ZIP Codes and proposes to build a postal-owned mail-irradiation facility within the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area.
The USPS claims building a local facility would minimize logistics and security requirements currently needed in transporting government mail to a contractor facility in Bridgeport, NJ.
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